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track listing:
1. Intro2. I Should Be Sleeping3. Grown Up4. Tell You5. A Cloud6. Look7. Rainfall
8. I Don't Wanna Go Out9. I Loved Her So Much10.What's The Point?11.Running In Circles12.Untitled (Guitar)13.My Girl14.As Times Change15.A Song For Your Smile
Release Date: November 22 2011LP UPC: 749846-01561-7
LP list price: $14.98CD UPC: 749846-01562-4
CD list price: $10.98Digital UPC: 749846-01568-6
press:Daniel Gill
Force Field PR1022 Milwaukee Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90042323.344.1602
radio:Matthew Gawrych
Terrorbird330 Morgan Ave #306Brooklyn, NY 11211
other inquiries:Mike Schulman
Slumberland Records510.599.5988
[email protected]://www.slumberlandrecords.com
Sea LionsEverything You Always Wanted To Know About Sea Lion
But Were Afraid To Ask LP/CD/Download
Slumberland Records :: SLR 156
When Adrian Pillado formed Sea Lions in 2007, he wasn't really sure what it would His influences were something of a musical snowstorm, involving Crass, John ColtrSun Ra, Syd Barrett, Lou Reed, Orange Juice, and K Records' flagship band BeatHappening. In the beginning, it was just Adrian singing and playing guitar, with his b
friend Pat playing drums. Both had a history in Oxnard's D.I.Y. punk scene, butsomething new was starting to happen in that town. A group of young kids had beenlistening to a lot of K, Postcard, Sarah, Creation, and (naturally) Slumberland recordnew bands started forming, and bands that were previously more into punk and noistarted working in these new influences. Maria's Eric Bellow started YAY! records todocument the Sound of Young Oxnard, and Sea Lions fit right in on the roster. Theearly days of Sea Lions were a learning curve, Adrian and Pat crashing and bashintheir way through songs, often stumbling upon something beautiful in the process. Ssomething was missing; a full band? more time to woodshed? They were always juteetering on the edge of something great, but when would it come?
That greatness came one night at the cooler than cool L.A. indie club Part Time PuThey had recently added a second guitarist, and a bass player... and they killed. Adhad really grown as a songwriter, the songs were still shambolic, but they were also
assertive and direct. They were in a race to the end of each song, and were runninthat race with swagger. They thrilled the full time punks in the crowd with a cover ofBlack Flag's "Nervous Breakdown," and wowed us Northern Soul junkies with adownright saucy cover of the Freda Payne classic, "Band of Gold." There was the epoint at which you could say, "Ladies and gentlemen, Sea Lions!"
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sea Lions, But Were Afraid to is without question the next giant step forward for the band. A brief instrumental intrgracefully leads you into the galloping proper album opener, "I Should be Sleeping.The production throughout is shimmering, and assured. Something as simple as thbacking "oohs" on the song "Grown Up," become transcendent. The use of toy pianthe beginning of the song could easily be cloying, but instead feels tasteful andnecessary. And while that song talks about the familiar indiepop theme of not wantto grow up, elsewhere on the album they reveal some very mature new facets of th
band. Nowhere is this more evident than what may be the album's strongest track "Times Change." While they do a wonderful job dabbling in minor keys and retro southat seem perfect for a haunted sock hop throughout Everything... , "As TimesChange" reveals a confident band that knows how to mine their record collections(particularly their 13th Floor Elevators, and Love records) and turn all of those souninto something entirely their own. The much-noted Calvin Johnson-like flavor of Adrvoice is a great contrast to what has become a quite virtuosic band. Second guitarisMatt, and drummer Javier come from the punk scene of Adrian's youth, while bassiKyle is a fervent Britpop fan, and often wears a button with an image of Radiohead'Thom Yorke.
All of this adds to the unique yet familiar sound that Sea Lions have cleverly cultivatBustling with nervous energy and the desire to communicate, Sea Lions share a seof urgency with great pop forebears like Subway Sect and Television Personalities -
earnestness combined with pop knowledge and punk suss. What Sea Lions capturewhere so many young bands try and fail, is not simply the sound of young Oxnard, the sound of youth everywhere. Bored, underemployed, and wishing your life wassomething else. If there is any justice in this world it will take them far.
an online press kit is available at:http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/press/sea-lions/
